“Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.”
“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”
“There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.”
“The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.”
“Politics makes strange bedfellows.”
“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.”